much money as he wanted by tradin' in Boston,' went 'a-travelling abroad;' and while in Florence, called on POWERS the sculptor, with a design to 'patronize' him a little. After looking at his 'Greek Slave,' his 'Eve,' and other gems of art, he remarked that he 'thought they'd look a good 'eal better if they had some clothes on. I'm pretty well off,' he continued, 'and ha'n't a chick nor child in the world; and I thought I'd price a _statty_ or two. What's the damage, now, for that one you're peckin' at?' 'It should be worth from four to five thousand dollars, I think,' answered POWERS. 'What! five thousand dollars for _that 'are_! I cal'lated to buy me a piece of _stattyary_ before I went home, but _that's_ out of the question! _Hasn't stattyary riz lately?_ How's paintin's here now?' · · · Just complaints are made by our city contemporaries of the exorbitant rates of postage upon weekly periodicals. Mr. WILLIS complains, in the '_New-Mirror_' weekly journal, that country postmasters charge so much postage on that periodical by mail, that in many cases it would make the work cost to its country subscribers something like ten dollars a year! All postage in this country is at too high a rate; and so long as it remains so, the law will continue to be evaded. 'Cheating UNCLE SAM' is not considered a very heinous offence. There is nothing one robs with so little compunction as one's country. It is at the very worst robbing only eighteen millions of people. · · · The lines sent us in rejoinder to the stanzas of 'C. W. D.,' in a late issue, would not be _original_ in our pages; nor could we hope to have many _new_ readers for them, after they have appeared in, and of course been copied from, that exceedingly pleasant and well-edited daily journal, the _Boston Evening Transcript_. · · · HAUFFMAN, the German poet, was recently expelled from the Prussian dominions, and all his works proscribed thenceforth. 'Served him right;' for in one of his works appears the 'word following, to wit:' '_Sleuerverweigerungsverfassungsmassigberechtig_!'--meaning a man who is exempt by the constitution from the payment of taxes. 'Myscheeves thick' must needs follow such terrific words. 'We have heard,' says a London critic, in allusion to this jaw-breaker, 'of a gentleman, a member of the _Marionettenschauspielhausengesellschaft_, who was said to be an excellent performer on the '_Constantinopolitanischetudelsackpfeife_!'' · · · We owe a word of apology to our friends the publishers, for the omission of notices which we had prepared of their publications, and which are crowded out by our title-page and index, that were forgotten until the last moment. We shall 'bring up arrears' in our next. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844, by Various